From 5d4c37af7cedfc78f0f223960e0bfd26f12eaa31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:43:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #3051 -- Documented the requirements for standalone testing. Thanks to Daniel Roseman for the draft text. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13626 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/topics/testing.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/testing.txt b/docs/topics/testing.txt index 8e82acc2d4..bfd1ef5e50 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing.txt @@ -309,6 +309,24 @@ can press ``Ctrl-C`` a second time and the test run will halt immediately, but not gracefully. No details of the tests run before the interruption will be reported, and any test databases created by the run will not be destroyed. +Running tests outside the test runner +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If you want to run tests outside of ``./manage.py test`` -- for example, +from a shell prompt -- you will need to set up the test +environment first. Django provides a convenience method to do this:: + + >>> from django.test.utils import setup_test_environment + >>> setup_test_environment() + +This convenience method sets up the test database, and puts other +Django features into modes that allow for repeatable testing. + +The call to :meth:`~django.test.utils.setup_test_environment` is made +automatically as part of the setup of `./manage.py test`. You only +need to manually invoke this method if you're not using running your +tests via Django's test runner. + The test database -----------------